perf bench: Documentation update
The current perf-bench documentation has a couple of typos and even
lacks entire description of mem subsystem. Fix it.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340172486-17805-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
index 7155722..d990365 100644
--- a/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
+++ b/tools/perf/bench/mem-memcpy.c
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@
static const struct option options[] = {
OPT_STRING('l', "length", &length_str, "1MB",
"Specify length of memory to copy. "
- "available unit: B, MB, GB (upper and lower)"),
+ "Available units: B, KB, MB, GB and TB (upper and lower)"),
OPT_STRING('r', "routine", &routine, "default",
"Specify routine to copy"),
OPT_INTEGER('i', "iterations", &iterations,
"repeat memcpy() invocation this number of times"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('c', "clock", &use_clock,
- "Use CPU clock for measuring"),
+ "Use cycles event instead of gettimeofday() for measuring"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('o', "only-prefault", &only_prefault,
"Show only the result with page faults before memcpy()"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-prefault", &no_prefault,